Bruton, JohnWednesday, 20 February 1991 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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Order of Business.
In respect of promised legislation, may I ask the Taoiseach to personally intervene to sort out the delays and disagreements between his Attorney General and his Minister for Industry and Commerce in ...
It is necessary that legislation to introduce competition into this public utility be introduced before Easter.
It has not been produced.
May I ask the Taoiseach if he will agree to ask the Electricity Supply Board to postpone the increase in electricity prices——
——until this complex legislation is in place?
This legislation has been promised for the past three years in the case of Deputy O'Malley and for the past year and a half by Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats.
It is not acceptable that electricity consumers should be faced with an increase of this kind. The absence of promised legislation——
This is a matter we will raise in every way possible.
The delay in this legislation is an indication of inefficiency and disagreement within this Government.
The Government are not doing their job.
Some time in the next century.
When will they be introduced?
When is that?
When is it proposed to take item No. 13?
Is the Taoiseach not responsible for the ordering of business in this House on behalf of the Government? May I ask him why he is not able to answer a question about the timing of a motion which a mem...
As the Taoiseach may know, the Whips can only act in the matter of ordering legislation which is Government legislation on the proposal of the Government. I am asking the Taoiseach as head of the Gov...
On a point of order, my question is entirely in order, it is as envisaged in the Orders of the House.
The Taoiseach clearly does not know the business of his Government.
The best piece of Dáil reform would be to place a Taoiseach in office who answers reasonable questions about the business for which his Government are responsible.
This would give the Taoiseach an opportunity to view this House from a different angle.
If members of the Government cannot answer legitimate questions on the Order of Business about when business is to be ordered there is going to be disorder.
It is not the normal procedure. It is the purpose of the Order of Business to inquire——
The Taoiseach does not want to be asked any questions.
There is no need to make personal references about the Taoiseach; his failings are obvious.
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Asked the minister: if there has been any developments in respect of his suggestion made in April 1989 to President Gorbachev that he and the US President might hold a summit in Ireland.
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I am sure the Taoiseach is aware of the difficulties of communication that exist between the parties in this war. I refer to logistical difficulties, in the sense that people have to fly from one cou...
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